Well representing your country against another side is international level

No one else was stepping up to get them through to the next round. Cahill is an absolute master of heading the ball and the leap he generates is still as good as anyone currently playing I would say

He's easily the best player in the history of the Australian national side I reckon

Yea, I agree with all that. It's just international football is a bit shit really, isn't it. Good on him like, but he's far from the player he was. He's not even one of the top players in the A League these days.

It's probably the expanded tournaments that are devaluing it for me. I know it's greatly benefited countries like Wales, so I should be grateful. But it does mean there's an awful lot of dross in the group stages. Qualifying groups have always contained that dross, but now they have the added incentive of the bigger tournaments, there's more exposure around the 'smaller' games.